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Sep 20, 2020 • 86 tweets • 31 min read • Read on X
#FINcenFiles JPMorgan, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, DB & Bank of NY Mellon

Connex:

Dimon, Manafort, Madoff, Jho Low, 1MDB (Broidy, Kush, Barrack), Isturiz, Derwick Assoc/Betancourt (Giuliani/Gowdy), Mogilevich, Deripaska (Trump/🐢/Mnuchin), Firtash (TeamTrump), Kolomoisky
JPMorgan, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, Deutsche Bank & Bank of New York Mellon kept profiting from powerful & dangerous players even after US authorities fined these financial institutions for earlier failures to stem flows of dirty money.

icij.org/investigations…
#FInCENfiles identify more than $2 trillion in transactions between 1999 & 2017 that were flagged by bank’s-internal compliance officers as possible money laundering or other criminal activity — including $514 B at JPMorgan and $1.3 T at Deutsche Bank.

icij.org/investigations…
Deutsche Bank ♥️ Trump
Estimates by the UN indicate that $2.4 trillion in illicit funds are laundered each year — the equivalent of nearly 2.7% of all goods & services produced annually in the world. But the estimates that LE detect less than 1% of the world’s dirty money.

icij.org/investigations…
New York regulators concluded in 2012 that Standard Chartered had “schemed with the Government of Iran” for nearly a decade to push through $250 billion in secret transactions, reaping “hundreds of millions of dollars in fees”

icij.org/investigations…
Giuliani Kept on Retainer for Accused Iran Sanctions Buster

Giuliani & Mukasey met in late February with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to come up with what they called a “diplomatic solution” to Zarrab’s case.

courthousenews.com/giuliani-kept-…
Banks can pad their bottom lines w/ the fees they collect as money spins through the webs of accounts often maintained by corrupt users of the financial system.

JPMorgan, scored an estimated $500k in revenues by serving as the chief banker to B. Madoff

icij.org/investigations…
Bernie Madoff wants Trump to commute his prison sentence

cnn.com/2019/07/24/bus…
Jho Low the mastermind behind the embezzlement of more than $4.5 billion from a Malaysian economic development fund, called 1Malaysia Development Berhad, or 1MDB.

He moved just over $1.2 billion through JPMorgan from 2013 to 2016, the records show.

icij.org/investigations…
💰Former RNC Chair Elliot Broidy & the 1MDB scandal
💰Update re Elliot Broidy, Jho Low & Guo Wengui & 1MDB

💰Broidy, Ukraine & VTB💰

Trump donor Elliott Broidy named in Ukraine criminal probe
Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy under scrutiny over alleged deal with sanctioned Russian bank VTB.
aljazeera.com/news/2018/03/t…
JPMorgan also moved money for companies and people tied to corruption scandals in Venezuela that have helped create one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.

One in three Venezuelans is not getting enough to eat, & millions have fled the country.

icij.org/investigations…
Nicolás Maduro Moros and 14 Current and Former VZ Officials Charged with Narco-Terrorism, Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Criminal Charges
Maduro and Others Allegedly Partnered With the FARC to Use Cocaine as a Weapon to “Flood” the United States

justice.gov/opa/pr/nicol-s…
One of the Venezuelans who got help from JPMorgan was Alejandro “Piojo” Isturiz, a former government official who has been charged by U.S. authorities as a player in an international money laundering scheme.

icij.org/investigations…
PDVSA Indictment

justice.gov/opa/press-rele…
JPMorgan also provided services to Derwick Assoc’s, an energy firm that won billions of dollars in no-bid contracts to repair VZ’s failing electricity grid. Derwick failed to deliver the power capacity expected — & overbilled the VZ gov’t by at least $2.9B
icij.org/investigations…
Alejandro Betancourt was in his 20s when he co-founded Derwick Associates with a younger cousin.

📌Giuliani urged Justice Department prosecutors to go easy on Betancourt in its probe of his connection with a Florida money laundering and bribery case.

thehill.com/policy/interna…
Venezuela Update

#Giulani #TeamTrump #Guido #Betancourt #Lopez #PDVSA #Obertobrothers #DeBeaumont #Venezuela #TrumpOrg

ABSI Enterprises sent and received more than $1 billion in transactions through JPMorgan between January 2010 and July 2015, the FinCEN Files show.

📌The parent of ABSI — is linked to an underworld crime boss named Semion Mogilevich.

icij.org/investigations…
Mogilevich is also linked to: Raiffeisen Banking Group which funded Trump Tower Toronto.

David Bogatin alleged to have used Trump properties for money laundering, was connected directly to Mogilevich’s YBM scam, with Bogatin’s brother helping run the $150 million scheme. Mogilevich also worked closely with Dmytro Firtash

thedailybeast.com/the-alleged-ru…
Trump’s Russian Laundromat
How to use Trump Tower and other luxury high-rises to clean dirty money, run an international crime syndicate, and propel a failed real estate developer into the White House.

newrepublic.com/article/143586…
📌NoviRex sent all its payments from banks in notorious money-laundering centers, including Latvia’s ABLV Bank.

But to move dollars internationally, NoviRex needed more than dodgy Latvian banks. It needed JPMorgan Chase.

icij.org/investigations…
In 2005, the year Jamie Dimon was named JPMorgan’s chief executive, FinCEN warned that Latvian banks and their “sizable” non-Latvian customer base “continue to pose significant money laundering risks.”

This was JPMorgan’s market.

icij.org/investigations…
5 Top Investors Who Profited From The 2008 Global Financial Crisis:
Warren Buffett
John Paulson - Trump fan
Jamie Dimon - JPMorgan
Ben Bernanke
Carl Icahn (Fmr Trump Advisor)
investopedia.com/financial-edge…
7/14/20: Despite a massive recession, post the Covid crash JPMorgan Chase just posted record revenue

cnbc.com/2020/07/14/des…
In 2014 Ukraine’s treasury had been looted, JPMorgan’s fees pocketed.

JPMorgan’s treasury-services group, the parent of its correspondent-banking business, reported $4.13 billion in revenue in 2013. Dimon’s total compensation in 2014 was $20 million.

icij.org/investigations…
As scrutiny of Manafort’s foreign dealings intensified, the FinCEN Files show, JPMorgan filed more suspicious activity reports detailing — years after the fact — millions of dollars in payments to the consultant, his associates and their businesses.

icij.org/investigations…
At Manafort’s 2018 trial, NoviRex’s name surfaced as one of a handful of shell companies used by Ukrainian oligarchs to channel payments for political lobbying work to Manafort’s own shell companies. #FinCENFiles

icij.org/investigations…
NoviRex secretly paid $4,190,111 to Manafort’s consulting operation on behalf of Yanukovych’s Party of the Regions.

At one of Manafort’s trials, Rick Gates, finally revealed the person behind NoviRex: Klyuyev, Yanukovych’s right-hand man.

icij.org/investigations…
Gates told the jury that Klyuyev was responsible for financing “polling work” as well as “political campaigns” for the Party of Regions. Government exhibits show payments of $4,190,111 for the work, through a company called Novirex Sales LLP.

kyivpost.com/ukraine-politi…
JPMorgan also processed more than $50 million in payments over a decade, the records show, for Manafort.

The bank shuttled at least $6.9 million in Manafort transactions in the 14 months after he resigned from the campaign.

icij.org/investigations…
#FinCENFiles — HSBC, JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered and Bank of New York Mellon — continued moving cash for suspect people and companies in the wake of deferred prosecution agreements and other big money laundering enforcement actions.

icij.org/investigations…
Mellon Financial, Bank of NY paid $38M dollars and signed a non-prosecution agreement after a federal probe concluded that it had allowed $7B in illicit Russian money to flow through its accts..

Mogilevich, is believed to be was behind some of the trans.

icij.org/investigations…
Bank of New York Mellon moved more than $1.3 billion in transactions between 1997 and 2016 tied to Oleg Deripaska, a Russia billionaire and a longtime ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Since 2008, Deripaska has been tied to organized crime.

icij.org/investigations…
@senatemajldr voted to lift sanctions on Rusal, a Russian aluminum company formerly headed by Putin ally Oleg Deripaska & he successfully steered near-identical Treasury funds for Appalachia to bankroll a Kentucky aluminum plant connected to Deripaska

thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnel…
Analysis: The role Russian oligarch & Putin ally Oleg Deripaska played in the Mueller report

pbs.org/newshour/world…
Deripaska, the Russian oligarch, didn’t just have Bank of New York Mellon helping him out.

The secret records reveal Deutsche Bank shuffled more than $11 billion in transactions between 2003 and 2017 for companies he controlled.

icij.org/investigations…
All five big banks in ICIJ’s analysis — JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered, HSBC and Bank of New York Mellon — handled transactions for companies controlled by Firtash.

icij.org/investigations…
Who is Dmytro Firtash? The man linked to $1 million loan to Giuliani ally has a shadowy past
The billionaire oligarch is “at the dead center of the greatest corruption operation in Ukraine’s history,” said a former senior U.S. diplomat.

nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1…
Giuliani henchman Lev Parnas, served as a translator for Toensing & diGenova repping Firtash. Parnas & Fruman were arrested, on unrelated charges that included illegally funneling $325,000 to a political action committee supporting pro-Trump candidates.

mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/id…
Ukrainian oligarch Firtash linked to Giuliani pals' gas deals and Biden dirt digging
A Ukrainian oligarch who is fighting extradition to the U.S. may figure in both the dirt digging and the gas deals pursued by Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman.

nbcnews.com/politics/trump…
In 2011, a lawsuit filed in Manhattan by former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko accused Firtash, Mogilevich and future Trump campaign manager Manafort of laundering illicit funds from Ukraine through banks and investment deals in the U.S.

icij.org/investigations…
Deutsche Bank employees instructed clients from Iran & other hot spots to lace their payment messages with code words that would trigger special handling. One executive urged workers to employ “tricks & cunning” to avoid detection by American authorities.

icij.org/investigations…
Deutsche Bank Opens Review Into Personal Banker to Trump and Kushner
The bank will examine a 2013 transaction between the banker, Rosemary Vrablic, and a company part-owned by Jared Kushner.

nytimes.com/2020/08/02/bus…
💰Shady Deutsche Bank💰

Deutsche Bank's U.S. Unit Kept Danske's Shady Billions Flowing
Deutsche Bank was working behind the scenes to move money for a company linked to Ihor Kolomoisky — a Ukrainian billionaire who, U.S. prosecutors later alleged, was engaged in a massive laundering scheme that funnelled cash into the American heartland.

icij.org/investigations…
Ukrainian Oligarch in Trump Impeachment Drama Laundered Billions in U.S.: Feds

thedailybeast.com/ukrainian-olig…
The leaked records show Deutsche Bank moved $240 million from December 2015 to May 2016 for a shell company registered in the British Virgin Islands that, U.S. court filings claim, was controlled by Kolomoisky and a business partner.

icij.org/investigations…
Prosecutors say much of the money allegedly stolen from PrivatBank between 2008 to 2016 ended up in investments in the U.S. — including commercial real estate in Texas and Ohio, steel plants in KY, WV and Michigan and a cellphone factory in Illinois.

icij.org/investigations…
How Kolomoisky does business in the United States

atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainea…
Mukhtar Ablyazov #FINcenFiles

Ablyazov laundered the money through shell companies in Cyprus, the Seychelles, the British Virgin Islands and other secrecy jurisdictions, and then invested in companies and properties in London, New York and Moscow,

icij.org/investigations…
💰Trump Tower Batumi re licensing deal between Trump & the Silk Road Group, which was at least partially funded by Kazakhstan’s BTA Bank, whose former chair Ablyazov was under inv’n for “allegedly siphoning” billions of dollars out of Kazakhstan.
newyorker.com/magazine/2017/…
Lawsuit by BTA Bank JSC alleges that Sater and the wealthy Kazakh businessman Ilyas Khrapunov explored financing the Moscow tower deal in 2012 with some of the $4 billion stolen a decade ago by Khrapunov’s father-in-law, ex-BTA Chairman Mukhtar Ablyazov.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The suit by BTA Bank JSC alleges that Sater and the wealthy Kazakh businessman Ilyas Khrapunov explored financing the Moscow tower deal in 2012 with some of the $4 billion stolen a decade ago by Khrapunov’s father-in-law, ex-BTA Chairman Mukhtar Ablyazov.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Rukaiyatu and Atiku Abubakar

A 2010 Senate report detailed Abubakar and his wife’s efforts to transfer $40 million in “suspect funds” into the U.S. through offshore accounts while Abubakar served as vice president

icij.org/investigations…
Abubakar hired a lobbyist, Scott Mason, who was a former Trump campaign adviser.

Abubakar’s party also hired Ballard Partners, run by Brian Ballard, former finance co-chairman for Trump’s campaign in Florida and a top Trump fundraiser.

propublica.org/article/trump-…
Isabel dos Santos and Sindika Dokolo

Isabel dos Santos is an Angolan billionaire who built a business empire with the aid of her father, who ruled the country for more than three decades.

icij.org/investigations…
In January 2020, an ICIJ investigation found that dos Santos and her husband, Sindika Dokolo, exploited family ties to obtain public contracts and licenses. Dos Santos now faces corruption and embezzlement charges in Angola.

icij.org/investigations…
Interesting in light of recent news: Trump partner Lev Leviev's reported deep involvement in (a) trafficking in Angolan blood diamonds by way of his special arrangement with Eduardo dos Santos and family,...

alternet.org/2017/05/dutch-…
Mr. Luveia said that “all those arrangements were back-channeled between the lobbyist Broidy and the central government, at the presidential level.” The Angolan president at the time, José Eduardo dos Santos.

nytimes.com/2019/08/13/us/…
Africa's Richest Woman Now Formally A Suspect In Angolan Corruption Probe

npr.org/2020/01/23/798…
ICIJ: Luanda Leaks - List of companies held by Isabel dos Santos and Sindika Dokolo

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
Isabel dos Santos hired Trump-tied lobbyists right after learning of the Luanda Leaks

The lobbyist, Sonoran Policy Group, is notorious for its work for repressive regimes and has ties to the Trump adm. Since 2017, it has earned $10.5M from foreign gov’ts

qz.com/africa/1790195…
The Khrapunov family

Viktor Khrapunov is accused of siphoning hundreds of millions of $$ from gov’t coffers by allegedly rigging auctions for properties so that family members could purchase them at dramatically reduced prices & sell them for a profit.

projects.icij.org/investigations…
“Sater helped Ablyazov, Khrapunov and others launder tens of millions of dollars in those stolen funds into the United States,” according to the complaint filed in Manhattan federal court.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Khrapunov's family has business ties to the Bayrock Group managed by former Trump advisor Felix Sater, who is a childhood friend of Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney.

Sater looked to launder cash through Trump projects

apnews.com/9207a7585e674c…
Sater: Trump Moscow/Trump Soho
Andriy Klyuyev, a wealthy businessman, was a leading adviser to Yanukovych. Klyuyev was sanctioned by the EU in 2014 for the alleged embezzlement of state funds and by the U.S. the next year for aiding Yanukovych in subverting democracy in Ukraine.

projects.icij.org/investigations…
How Paul Manafort Helped Buy Washington Influence for Putin Crony Andriy Klyuyev
Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman used an obscure think tank to make D.C. connections for Viktor Yanukovych.

foreignpolicy.com/2017/07/07/how…
Klyuyev allegedly authorized a crackdown in which club-wielding riot police dispersed Euromaidan demonstrators. Resorting to violence backfired, bringing hundreds of thousands into Kyiv’s streets.  

eurasianet.org/a-brief-histor…
US DOJ accuse Samark Lopez Bello, of being the “frontman” in a narco-trafficking scheme run by the country’s VP

Lopez Bello, a petroleum distribution executive in VZ, is also a member of one of Trump’s luxury golf course resorts (Doral) in South Florida.

miamiherald.com/news/politics-…
Odebrecht SA is the biggest engineering and contracting company in Latin America. In December 2016, it admitted to operating a massive cash-for-contracts scheme that the U.S. Justice Department described as “the largest foreign bribery case in history.”

projects.icij.org/investigations…
Panama’s attorney general said that Odebrecht had agreed to pay the Panamanian government more than $59 million in reparations for the bribes it allegedly paid to secure contracts between 2010 and 2014, while Martinelli was president.

fastcompany.com/3067820/trumps…
Martinelli sat on the board of a bank that became the co-trustee for the Trump Ocean Club, a role that left it in charge of managing funds coming in from rentals and sales, and of disbursing money to Trump, who gets millions in fees from the project.

fastcompany.com/3067820/trumps…
Trump Ally Battles Extradition to Panama From Miami

Martinelli has been accused of, among other things, insider trading, embezzlement and using public money to wiretap business and political adversaries.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash siphoned off more than $190 million of state loans his bank received in the wake of the global financial crisis, part of which he ploughed into a deal to privatize a titanium manufacturing company. occrp.org/en/the-fincen-…
Bank filings and details from a criminal investigation show how emergency funds from the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) were immediately shifted from Firtash’s Nadra Bank to private companies he controlled, crippling the bank while enriching the tycoon. occrp.org/en/the-fincen-…
Police and court documents allege he also siphoned off around $110 million from the final installment of the state bailout, as Ukraine was wracked by economic and political turmoil following the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych in early 2014. occrp.org/en/the-fincen-…
That money was allegedly earmarked for Firtash to buy a stake in a metals manufacturer which supplies the military, but was then secretly siphoned off to his other companies.

occrp.org/en/the-fincen-…
During the previous US administration, Firtash was accused of using $18.5 million in bribes in an attempt to secure permission to mine titanium raw materials in India, which would then be sold to the US as finished products.

uawire.org/cypriot-court-…
Firtash Boeing Titananium

Dmytro Firtash
With Deutsche Bank’s Help, Ukrainian Oligarchs Leave a Trail of Ruin in U.S.

Kolomoisky siphoned billions of dollars from PrivatBank, Ukraine’s largest financial institution, which he co-owned, in an audacious laundering scheme. occrp.org/en/the-fincen-…

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